No one’s taking away anything. The Supreme Court ruled on censorship. The measures that California had in place beforehand still work and most retailers choose to follow the ESRB’s ratings voluntarily. In fact, this weakens the power of those who might attempt to use censorship to silence news sources that don’t brown nose them.
Furthermore, the belief that this will stop the spread of violent games is about as effective as saying gun control would stop the flow of guns into the hands of criminals.
Assassin’s Creed isn’t going to make your kid go out and shank powerful political figures. Battlefield 3 isn’t going to make your kid go shoot up his high school. Harry Potter isn’t going to make your kid turn to witchcraft.
Wrong. There was no censorship involved in this law at all. It was a law restriction based upon age. The game producers were still free to produce and sell their violent games but not to children.
Who made you the authority on how aspects of life influence children?
It is this authoritarian attitude that Supreme Court and others have that is a threat to our freedom. We ALL should have EQUAL representation on the issue and make law based upon that EQUAL representation we all have.
I personally have seen the influence of violent, dysfunctional, anti-moral and sexually perverse liberal culture on many children in my lifetime and it has not been good at all. Yet people like you keep on insisting that cultural influences have no effect. BS!